Health & Medicine

1,197 sourced entries filed under health & medicine, split by century. Each century below opens the full list for that stretch of time.

By century

A line from each of the last few centuries

  • 1539In Henan province, China, a severe drought with swarms of locusts is made worse, by a major epidemic outbreak of the plague.source
  • 1645April 10 – Because of the plague, the Edinburgh town council orders that the college graduation ceremony should be moved forward, so that students can leave the city (on November 19, teaching resumes in Linlithgow).source
  • 1751The Medical School is founded.source
  • 1863The recipe for the herbal liqueur Bénédictine is devised by Alexandre Le Grand in Fécamp, France.source
  • 1955World population: 2,755,823,000source
  • 2020January 23 – COVID-19 pandemic: The Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the initial COVID-19 outbreak, is quarantined, with all scheduled public transport services and intercity flights halted.source